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Shadow of the Silk Road / Colin Thubron.

Thubron, Colin, 1939- (Author).

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A journey along the greatest land route on earth: out of the heart of China into the mountains of Central Asia, across northern Afghanistan and the plains of Iran and into Kurdish Turkey, Colin Thubron covers some seven thousand miles in eight months. Making his way by local bus, truck, car, donkey cart and camel, he travels from the tomb of the Yellow Emperor to the ancient port of Antioch. The Silk Road is a huge network of arteries splitting and converging across the breadth of Asia. To travel it is to trace the passage not only of trade and armies but also of ideas, religions and inventions. But alongside this rich and astonishing past, this book is also about Asia today: a continent of upheaval. One of the trademarks of Thubron's travel writing is the beauty of his prose; another is his gift for talking to people and getting them to talk to him.--From publisher description.

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  • ISBN: 9780061231728
  • ISBN: 006123172X
  • Physical Description: 363 pages : maps ; 24 cm
  • Edition: 1st U.S. edition
  • Publisher: New York : HarperCollins, 2007.

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Includes index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Dawn -- The capital -- Mantra -- The last gate under heaven -- The Southern road -- Kashgar -- The mountain passage -- To Samarkand -- Over the Oxus -- Mourning -- The Mongol peace -- To Antioch.

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